This obviously isn’t the fight anyone asked for, but thanks to Canelo Alvarez’s drug test failure, this is what we get. Martirosyan hasn’t fought in two years and is a pretty good junior middleweight contender, but he’s never fought at middleweight, and certainly not against someone like Golovkin. On the other hand, he’s never been stopped before, so perhaps “GGG” might find it difficult to KO the Edmond Taverdyan trained fighter.

The IBF is not sanctioning this as a title fight, so the WBC and WBA are the only major belts on the line in the night’s headliner. Golovkin is incredibly popular in Southern California, so it should be a great atmosphere at the StubHub Center.

Bloody Elbow will have live coverage of the card starting at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT, with results and highlights to follow.